Chapter 15 postscript

Shams, Nash and Paul stand in the hospital parking lot with their keys. Inside the BMW's open rear compartment are two mahogany boxes.The locks of the boxes have been opened, and both boxes were specially designed and made by Paul; the one on the left is the finished product, and the one on the right that looks exactly the same is the original prototype. Shams reached out to open the lid of the wooden box on the left, and the light in the rear compartment seemed to be sucked away by the black flannel in the open box. Paul reached into the box, took out the gold watch, and stared at it carefully.

Nash frowned curiously, like a child who saw a magician make a rabbit out of thin air. If this is the watch we want to keep from being stolen, Nash looked at the covered mahogany box on the right.What's that one that Nick took? It's the watch you gave him.Wasn't Shams in a tone that said it was obvious? But I never gave it to him!Nash said. Shams laughed.Of course you do, just not in our time stream.He lifted the lid of the box on the right, the one they'd just taken out of the hospital room and put in the trunk.Leaning his cane against the cart, he reached into the case and took out an identical gold watch.

What about this one?Nash pointed to the watch in Shams' hand. You gave this watch to Nick, says Shams: he's using it to prevent future horrors from happening, he's using it to undo the very reason he received it in the first place.This is the same watch.This paradox occurs because we violate the principles of physics. so you're saying Shams lifted the cover of the watch, revealing the lettering inside the watch.Time flies, gone forever.These two watches are exactly the same, even the details are the same, like children born from the original gold watch. this means The three of them looked back and forth at the two identical gold watches.

Shams finally looked up.Now, the watch has become two. (End of the book)